Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-08-04

A good flag pavement has been placed
along the vacant lots on the South SIDE OF
Main street from Rouzer's Branch to the n,
V. R.R.
SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS is not thing
to be sncezed at no, no! Yet when all Is
rcported we will have that sum, net, TO mana
over to the Guardian Hose Company as the
proceeds of our fair
PUBLIC SALE-Rcv, G. G. Lanlus will sell
a valuable lot of personal property at the
parsonage IN Graceham on Tuesday, August
10th. See bills.
SEyENrH ANNUAL ExcURsIoN.-The Luth'
ssn Sunday School Of this place, will make
their Seventh Annual Excursion to Pen:Mar
on Thursday, August 18TH The excursion
train will start from Union Bridge and take
IN passengers at all intervening stations.
Cor time and rates see excursion bllls.
RE1IGrous.-The Harvest Home service
Will be held in Trinity Reformed Church
next Sundaymorning. The monthly meet
ing of the Cleaners Beneacent Society in the
evening. The public is cordially invited.
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That fine blooded colt belonging to Mr..
NJ. Clay Cramer of which they have had a
great deal of trouble in breaking has been
broke to drive nicely, through the hands OF
Mr.. Henry Foreman. He is certainly the
making of fine driving horse.
Letters remaining the Postofllce at Me-
chanicstown, Frederick Co., Nd. Aug. l, ~
Boring, Lev, Mr.. Cole, T. Tel, Op.; Far.
row, Joseph Mrs.; Heathcote, l.. G. Esq ;
Kummcl, Geo.. Mr.; McNeal Flora Miss
Palmer, Jos. r. Mrs.; Shank, John MIR.
Willhidc. c. A. Ell Boblitz, P. NJ.
Observation-Disclosures up for a Tour.
nament and Dance near Rocky Ridge on
Saturday, August 18th, Handsome prizes
will be awarded and good orchestra has
been secured to furnish music for the dane
ing. The committee is an excellent is nm ex'
cellent one aud the occasion will be an en-
joyable one.
OUR FAIR A SUCCESS. are gratified
TO be able to report our Firemens Fair sue
cess the receipts to date reach the hand
some sum, $l1sos2, and net profit Of 500
is indicated. This will place the Guardian
Hose Company pretty squarely on its feet
financially and there will be little trouble
thcrcatter.for it to maintain itself.
Rev Earnest McGilI, formerly of Catoctin
Furnace, and sonin-law of Or. WmsG. Nc
Phcrson, Of that place isquite i'll at his home
in St. Michacls, Talbot county.-CarrO0
Mems. II
rive are gratificd to hc able to contradict
the ahoyc.l Mr. McGill has been seen upon
our streets several times during the past
week. lie is stopping at DR.. McPherson's
Ed. CLARIoNI
THE LANTERN CONTEST. Tie contest for
the railroad lantern between conductor
Lawrence of the Emmitsb,lrg railroad and
brakeman Buckingham Of the w. Md. rail.
road, for the benefit of the Firemcns Fair in
this place was decided on Saturday evening
last.
Mr.. Buckingham won the lantern having
received $50 votes to 22O for MIR. Lawrence
The votes were 10 cents each making the
proceeds $3.50. 1t is handsome lantern
and cost $500.
RANDOM REpoRTrNG-Th Frederick cor
respondent of the Baltimore Herald is as
careless concerning facts as the reporter for
the american has proven to have been IN
the past. In the last Sunday Herald we find
an item concerning our Burial Case Co. III
which it was stated that work would begin
on Oast) Monday morning and that an 80
horsepower engine bad been put in position.
The facts are that a 20horsepower engine
is in position less than half of the machinery
here and that fully thirty days will have
passed before work begins.
We clip the following from the Frederick
Times How accurate the items are may be
learned by reading this paper.
The fair which has been in progress in
Mechancstewn for the past two weeks Will
close tonight. The proceeds, which will
amount to about $500, will be devoted to
equipping hose company for fire purposes
The pipes for the water supply to Mechan-
icstown have arrived and the work oflaying
the same will be begun Monday.
The Casket factory Of Mcssrs. Walker q
Keyser will begin operations about the first
of ncxt;month An eighty horsepower en-
CINE, intended to run the machinery at the
factory arrived to-day. The factory will
give employment to about twenty men.
THERMOMETERS TO the end that an &C
curate register of heat be obtained it is nee
cssary that certain conditions he observed
else the reading of a thermometer is value
less.
A thermometer should he in sheltered
place and should he protected from radlatcd
or reflected heat and where there is a free
passage of air.
A thermometer may he placed in the
shade" and yet it may he above n heated
pavement or roof, Or it may receive from
walls opposite an amount Of reflected heat
that renders the test most unsatisfactory.
We know two thermometers, which when
together register exactly alike, yet their ac-
custOmcd place is on opposite sides of Main
st, distant from each about one hundred feet
v". during III" heated term they have vari"'